Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know why but I see that more clearly now than I ever did at the time . |
| 2 | Oh they 're just beginning to be I always feel by the time they 're eight weeks |
| 3 | ‘ I never noticed at the time . |
| 4 | The sciences were at one time supposed to generalize from observations by a logical operation called induction , claimed to free them from dependence on the merely analogical thinking which prevailed in the mediaeval proto-sciences , and which regrettably remain for the time being indispensable in dealing with everyday problems . |
| 5 | Sometimes , she almost screamed at the time it took . |
| 6 | ‘ Part of his problem was that he was just doing what everybody else did at the time , and it killed him . |
| 7 | But I had many other interests which kept me fully occupied at the time . |
| 8 | But it also depends on the time it takes to get the job . |
| 9 | A defendant may state that he honestly thought at the time that the girl was above 16 and that he never thought to enquire , or that the girl was dressed up and wearing make-up . |
| 10 | However , he did know that he nearly died at the time of his peritonitis operation , and so it was easy to convince him that it would take quite a time before he was really strong again . |
| 11 | The wealth and power he clearly possesses by the time he is reunited with his brother would have been regarded by the writer and the first hearers of the story as clear signs of God 's blessing . |
| 12 | This fellow , who must be the only , or almost the only , surviving person outside Japan who has been the target of a nuclear bomb , and who knows what it 's like for real ( as opposed to the criminally bone-headed fantasising about nuclear war indulged in by our sillier soldiers and politicians ) , was not only matter-of-fact about it all , as though it was the sort of thing that might have happened to anyone , but he actually admitted that he had never given a thought to the possibility that he might be at risk as a result of the radiation he undoubtedly suffered at the time until recent weeks when various busybodies brought the matter to his attention . |
| 13 | Among several other flaws in Anselm 's election and investiture , there was one which neither Anselm nor anyone else mentioned at the time , but was later to be held against him by the papal legate : on a strict view , his election -in addition to all its other legal defects — had been schismatic , since the king and all the others who took part , with the sole exception of Anselm himself , were schismatics , for they had not recognized Urban II as the legitimate pope although he had now been pope for five years . |